communism

...s believes does not change after the break up of the Soviet Union and there are some countries which are controlled by the communist regimes. Firstly, some part of the society think that fall of the communism starts with death of the mother, the break up of Soviet Union. In 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev became a leader of Soviet Union and he changed the strict rules of communism with reform policies of glasnost, which is policy of making a government more open and democratic and perestroika (restructuring). Both ideology and a practical system for the organization of state communism entered a period of crisis in the late 20th century. In the 1989 – 1990 communist parties of Europe left their monopoly of power and the regimes in these countries fell or went to elections. Because of Gorbachev’s effort to liberalize the Soviet Union’s politico-economic system, the system collapsed in 1991. When Gorbachev came to the leadership of the Soviet Union, he knew that there was a crisis in the Union but he did not realize how serious it was. Gorbachev thought that the Soviet Union’s only need is reform. Six and a half years after he became leader of the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union and the Soviet communism were dead. As Maynard said “soviet communism collapse on its own” and he adds “the Soviet Union’s collapse were the inherent flaw of socialism – inefficient bureaucracy nepotism and the denial of human freedom”. The west part of the Soviet Union was more impatient, on the night of November 9, 1989 the most important symbol of the cold war Berlin wall, which divided Europe into two pieces, was ruined. With the collapse of the Berlin wall, Czechs and Slovaks started demonstrations for political reforms. As a result of these movements “ the communist party of Czechoslovakia guilty and peacefully transferred rule to Havel and the Czechoslovak reformers in who was later dubbed the ‘velvet revolution’”. (www.state.gov) These demonstrations spread to the other countries. In Romania, popular protest and army overthrew communist leader Nicolea Ceausescu. Also in Albania and Bulgaria’s regimes receded power in 1989, these revolutions show that communism approaches to its end day by day. At last, in 1991 with the break up of Soviet Union as George Bush said, “ communism died ”. Some other part of the society thinks that communism is still alive. They believed that the break up of the Soviet Union does not mark the end of communism. These people have some evidence about this issue. For example, in Georgia, a few weeks later the elections of anti communist party’s boss, who had arrested because of speaking against the Soviet Union behaviors, became leader. In 1991, associated press reporter Deborah Seward would write: “nearly a year after the soviet union collapse, voters in two of its republics have returned former communism leaders to office in most of the others, they never felt”. This shows that people did not change their ideological thought easily, so there are still some people who are defend...

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